Re: [cobalt-users] user priviledges

["Dana J. Laude" <dlaude@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clayton McGow wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
>         How can I allow non super user accounts to use the "write"
> command? The priviledges on the file are rwxr_xr_x... yet
> only the super user can use "write" to send messages, I
> always get this message:
> "write: /dev/ttyp1: Permission denied" . Can someone tell me
> why this is or how to change it?

Just make sure they are in the correct group, like "tty"
as an example. I'm assuming that /dev/ttyp1 has the owner
and group setup as root and tty.  Thus you would have it
like: rwxrwxr_x. (owner has rwx, group rwx, other r_x.)

Regards,
Dana
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